Sport: All We Women Did ...

Among all the ceaseless points of competition between the male and
female of the species, at least one area of male superiority has long
been supposed unchallenged: women are lousy drivers, men are great.
Last week that illusion, too, was shattered. In one of the most
competitive of U.S. driving tests, the 2,061-mile, five-day Mobilgas
Economy Run from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, women won the most coveted
honors.

Permitted to participate in the Mobil-gas contest only since 1957,
womankind furnished 20 of the 56 drivers in the 1960 run. Among them
were a grandmother, seven housewives, a bobbysoxer, a women's-club
president, a...